Linked List: May 1, 2014

Thursday, 1 May 2014

Burying the URL ★: Great piece by Allen Pike:

I realize that URLs are ugly to look at, hard to remember, and a nightmare for security. Still, they are the entire point of the web.
Sony’s in a ‘Bag of Hurt’ ★: Aaron Souppouris, reporting for The Verge:

The second charge is due to what Sony calls “demand for physical media contracting faster than anticipated,” especially in Europe. Because of this, Sony says it does not believe the business will generate “sufficient cash flow in the future to recover the carrying amount of long-lived assets.” It anticipates an impairment charge on those assets, and a second charge on the overall value of its disc manufacturing business, which will amount to 25 billion yen ($245 million).